Physics Asked by Shadumu on February 6, 2021
In the weak gravitational regime where the low-energy effective action holds,(linearized) gravity can be quantized, and we can treat graviton as quantum fields on a Minkowski background. One can also couple it to other fields (e.g. Maxwell) to obtain interactions terms.
The classical counterpart of graviton can be thought of as gravitational wave modes, which certainly perturb the background geometry. In the presence of graviton excitation, does it affect the geometry as the classical limit predicts? i.e. does free falling test particle’s trajectory get bent?
If so, with graviton excitations in superposition, do we get a semiclassical description of superposing geometries?
We know that gravity bends space time and light, and the particles for gravity, which carry it are gravitons, hence we can say that gravitons can bend light, however these particles remain hypothetical and we do not know if they exist or not.
Answered by Tanush on February 6, 2021
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